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An Open Letter on OOXML Happenings in India

By Pamela Jones et al.

The appeal filed by India against OOXML is not yet available, but you can get a pretty good idea of what it likely is about by reading this open letter, Finally, My open letter on OOXML happenings in India by Dr. Deepak B. Phatak, a member of the committee, written to members of the LITD 15 committee of BIS, India.

Among the issues Dr. Phatak raises are that OOXML is "not mature enough for acceptance as an ISO standard" yet; that there's no final draft available; the standard has been broken up into parts, and new conformance criteria introduced; and that the BRM meeting "failed in its basic objectives of resolution through technical discussion" since there was insufficient time to discuss most of the issues and in the end, most of the NBs abstained.

While we can't know if these are the issues in the appeal, it's as close to a hint as we can get until the appeal by India is released. And his letter presents a detailed view of his experiences working on OOXML, what happened at the BRM, and afterwards.

Full post as published by Groklaw on June 03, 2008 (boomark / email).